That “livestream” thing demands that I register and login and it tries to push cookies and scripts from a dozen different domains to view just one page. No thanks. At least on FTB I can use my usual protection.

Where am I you (rhetorically) ask? I’m busy not existing. You see I’m a foxhole atheist and therefore I don’t exist. I’ll go to Skepticon next year, if the world does not end on Dec 21, that is. May your Skepticon be filled knowledge gained and shared.

I had decided I couldn’t go, as I didn’t want to make the drive up there, for financial and health reasons, even though it’s only about twenty miles. (My backside really hurts, and it isn’t from sitting on a fat wallet.)

So I got a phone call about a family emergency, and ran out the door and went driving anyhow, cursing a bit. I got the emergency taken care of (the kids had locked themselves out of their car, a-frakking-gain) and realized that Skepticon was on the way home.

I cruised down past what I though was the venue, and saw some kid in a “Secular Student Alliance” shirt, but that was the only clue. The place I thought it was looked busy and the folks there looked happy (which was a clue against, maybe), but I looked unshaven and in a raggy shirt, and I felt the pain coming back, so I kept on going for home and a nice lie-down.

I thought about calling my wife and asking her to look up the location anyhow, but decided to not put her through the trouble. When I got home and reclining, I tried to look it up, and got rather frustrated, so I am glad I didn’t ask her. It was where I thought it was, though.

I thought about cleaning up and cruising back up to the after-party, but the dog has malfunctioned again, and this recliner feels good.

I hope the evening goes well for all. I will try to be ready to go next year. Really.

I’m not seeing why I shouldn’t have posted about the technical difficulties. There were a fair number of people baffled at how to get the stream up when the site wasn’t launching it and even now they still haven’t resolved the issue stopping people from logging in as they required to view the stream.

There were only a few people posting about it here but I saw a fair number struggling to find a way to view this on the site.

Oh I have some fun in youtube comments actually. The individual people are frequently set up to receive notifications when you reply to their comments. Nobody else is going to read it but I can spit out something that’s not terrible in less than ten seconds and then wait for any of them to take the bait.